Rapturous Sound

Linda Rock
Jul 5, 2023
3 min read

As stated previously this text which was given by the Lord to His faithful, zealous, pleasing co-worker has been given to us, to show who and what God is to us also. Remember, Paul is a man filled with the ever-living, ever-working, ever-producing Spirit of the Lord. But Paul is only human just as you and I. Paul has weaknesses, but he has this one particular weakness which he refers to as, a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 2 Corinthians 12: 7b.

I have found this word and still find it most humbling, sobering and wearisome. I am extremely weary to call many of my weaknesses, thorns in the flesh. I am very loathed and kept sober, every time I am tempted to speak of some human weakness as of God’s doing, when it is not. I am humbled each time I think of the Apostle and there is no way I can place my own thorns with this servant of God, who was also human. Three times Paul spoke to God about removing this burden, this thorn, but he never went over that borderline of three. In other words, Paul never spent his life asking, seeking and knocking to have God hear him and remove the human weakness. No! Paul received an answer from the Lord and he was as perfect with his thorn, as God was with it.

Yes, it is because we are only human that we need to fully drop into the arms of the One who is only Divine. It is because we are weak and unable to help ourselves that we must fully depend on the One who is Strong. Then and only then will we know abounding pleasures, as Paul knew in his very being and lived to the glory of the Father. Then and only then will we own the ever flowing fountain of Jesus’ Blood, in our very bones, as Paul did in his heaven-life here on earth.

What contentment! What peace of mind! What surpassing joy! Paul knew them all and more, because he knew Jesus. Do you know Jesus? Do I know Jesus? Are we able to hear Jesus speak these words to us also? My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

The Lord offers two of His unconquerable and unlimited gifts to Paul and to us also; us, who are only human; us, who cannot help ourselves. Here they are. May the Holy Ghost grant us perfectly hearing ears to hear His perfectly melodious voice, as He offers these abounding treasures.

My grace. My power.

Just to hear the Lord speak these words is beyond our earthly comprehension. But these go even beyond as we are taken on a higher plain of understanding.

Can you hear Jesus saying this to you?

I offer you My grace, for it is sufficient for you. Yes, you are only human and all human beings lack, but if you accept My grace, as I give it, no augmenting of it, it will be sufficient for you. What is our Lord saying to us about His sufficient grace? It has been brought to me like this.

David has found himself in some cruelly hard times, no doing, or making of his. He has gone to a friend who manages a huge, thriving company, seeking help to secure a loan. He simply wants to be able to pay his bills, feed his young family, keep a roof over their heads and a host of other necessary and needed things. David’s friend knows all about his bruised financial state and tells him that the company will provide all that he needs. The company is more than sufficiently able to uphold David in this time and keep him from daily worry and stress because of his unfortunate situation. The company is his sufficiency and this is evidenced daily in the life of David.

When our Jesus tells us that His grace is sufficient for us, He is not speaking nice, empty words. He knows exactly our situations and if He says that His grace is all we need, as His grace is sufficient for us, then so be it.